Saturday
150 Years Ago
Circus coming: The great San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome will perform in Carson City on July 23 and 24. It is a grand, moral, instructive, and pleasing exhibition. Matinee at 2:30 p.m., admission $1.00, children under 12, 50 cents.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: The circus tent will be pitched on the ground formerly occupied by the Overland Stage Company on State Prison Road.
A gypsy wagon, looking like a piratical land craft, passed through the streets attracting much attention.
There are now eight patients at the county hospital, all receiving motherly care at the hands of the Matron, Mrs. Kennedy.
130 Years Ago
The Mamie: The steamer Mamie has been repaired and is now taking all parties so desiring to any and all parts of the lake. Send your order to captain J.A. Todman, Carson City.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Buy a Ford – spend the difference, $522/62 F.O.B. Carson City, fully equipped. First payment $175 balance in ten monthly installments. Sales, service, repairing, Carson City garage, authorized Ford dealers, corner of Sixth and Carson streets.”
70 Years Ago
Inmates give show: Nevada’s “Little Olympics” will be performed by an all-inmate cast by the penitentiary. They will mimic the world champions in many athletic fields of endeavor at the 1952 “Independence Day Harlequinade.” Warden A.E. Bernard regretfully announces that there will be no fun starters and the tunnel digging contest is closed. The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be on hand.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “El Charro Avitia – lounge specials. All-day-long fiesta time in the lounge only. Monday: ‘Football Widows’ Night.’ Tuesday: ‘Pina Colada Day.’ Wednesday: ‘Tequila Day.’ Thursday: ‘$1.00 tequila shots.’ Friday: ‘Party Night.’ Located at 4389 South Carson.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
New baby: The hands in this office, (the “devil” and sub-local), were made the recipients of a bountiful supply of wines and cigars by Louis Morris, who had a daughter born unto him. The wine was drunk by the “boys” and a long life and happiness was sent to the happy parent and child pledged in many a brimming bumper. We were so “taken up’ with the happy effects of the potations that the words of that good old song, “Oh, I should like to marry,” were continually before our mind.
130 Years Ago
Advertisement: “J.H. Cowning, the pioneer, carriage, and sign painter of Carson City. Established 1860, prices to suit the times, shop opposite Leete and Leary.
120 Years Ago
The Indian School: “The Advance,” a paper published at the Carson Indian School, says the school year closed with total enrollment reaching 300 while the average was more than 230. The interest manifested by the pupils has been very satisfactory, even the older Indians have shown a warmer feeling towards school.
100 Years Ago
Tennis tournament in Carson: Fifty players are using the public courts, and it is expected that at least thirty will enter one or more of the events scheduled for the tournament: Misses Stella Colcord, Florence Bray, Anna Maud Stern, Frances Shaughnessy, Anna Louise Shaughnessy, Claire Gifford… Charles Priest, J.L. Harvey, C.E. Kitzmeyer, Ned Martin, Vernon Lovell, Alden Hunting, W.T. Holcomb, and C.E. Barber to name a few.
70 Years Ago
New dining room at Sunny Acres: The new dining room, the “Redwood Gables” was formally opened and is fully equipped to prepare and serve meals to more than 100 children. The first meal served in the new dining room was a sack lunch. Following breakfast in the old dining room, all the children and staff began the day’s work carrying parts and equipment, food, and supplies into the new building.
30 Years Ago
Photo caption: Joleen Feyder washes her quarterorse mare after a workout for the upcoming fair. The new $750 wash rack at the Carson City fairgrounds was donated by the Capitol City Riders 4-H club.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Blind musician: A man was playing a flutina on the streets, and a woman was picking up loose quarters sent as a reward for the dulcet strains issued from the instrument. The music discoursed was excellent, and the ability displayed showed a vast amount of practice, to finger the instrument with such a masterly touch as did the blind man. They had a large crowd of lookers-on gathered wherever they went.
130 Years Ago
Physician: The state employs a physician to tend to the sick at the state prison and orphan’s home.
120 Years Ago
Como picking up: Times are improving in Como and the Palmyra district, and it is probable that 100 men will be employed before the summer is over. The Paramore brothers have four feet of rich ore in their claim, and the capitalists who own it, own the Como-Eureka mine.
100 Years Ago
Picnic at Bowers: St. Theresa’s parish will have a picnic at Bowers Mansion. It has been promised that there will be games, swimming, and refreshments.
70 Years Ago
Highway 50 wagon train: Routes riders will travel from Stateline, Lake Tahoe to Placerville taking one week for the trip. The first day’s ride will be in Lake Valley, then to Meyers, Echo Portals and Haypress Meadows over Mt. Ralston and down to Tamarack… it costs little to accompany the wagon train caravan. Riders may book passage in covered wagons, stagecoach, or other conveyance for $1 a day. Horseman pay no entry fee and can buy hay for $1 a day.
30 Years Ago
Lightning helps plants: Frequent lightning bolts in Indiana’s skies this summer may look terrifying but are helping to spur plant growth. “It’s not an old wives’ tale,” said David B. Mengel, Purdue University professor of agronomy. “As lightning passes through the atmosphere, it converts nitrogen into ammonia, and ammonia is beneficial to the plants.”
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Nevada state lottery: E.L. Blanchard, who has the management of this lottery, says the Virginia Enterprise people has just returned from San Jose, California, and will at once proceed to set the ball of fortune in motion. As it is a home institution, sanctioned by our legislature, tickets will doubtless sell very rapidly once the scheme is brought to our people.
130 Years Ago
Prize fight, a lot of bull: There has been bad blood between Al Bryant and a Frenchman who worked for Circe. They got into a row and fought along the railroad tracks near the Box Factory and then agreed to adjourn to the corral in the old Willis ranch near the orphans’ home. There were about one hundred people present, and the two men were covered with blood. The cry was raised that police were coming, and people scattered from the scene – but there were no police in half a mile. Just as the fight started again, a Holstein bull from the orphans’ home got loose and came charging into the enclosure with head down and tail up charging the fighters around the ring. The Frenchman got the worst of the fight, and the contest was awarded to the bull.
120 Years Ago
Wheelman: The Carson wheelman, or a number of them, are in training. They are expecting to do some record making before the season closes.
100 Years Ago
Death: Frances Judnick, former inmate of the orphans’ home, was trampled to death by a horse. She came to the orphans’ home with her sister and brother a few years ago from Virginia City after their father had killed their mother and then committed suicide during a spell of insanity. Frances was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. William Fleming in Fallon. She had been leading a horse, was knocked over and kicked to death.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater, ‘I’ll See You in My Dreams.’ The delightful musical story of Gus Kahn, who made America happy, it has gay and hummable song hits, starring Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy.”
30 Years Ago
Photo caption: Piles of dead fish at Rye Patch reservoir north of Lovelock provide a grim sight after the reservoir’s water was released to irrigate crops. State officials, who said they were not told of the pending water release, say they doubt the water will even reach the fields because of high seepage and evaporation. It could take more than a decade before the fish population at Rye Patch reservoir returns to world class status.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
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